Special Music Education

Special Music Education and Music Therapy Pre-Conference Online Seminar - Musical Events

To join these musical events, which will be live streamed during the seminar, please check the schedule and click on the Zoom link below:

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Wednesday’s Musical Event 18:00-19:00

Grooving-Moving Percussion & Dance Company - Austria

The Grooving-Moving Percussion & Dance Company by percussion teacher Andreas Huber and dance teacher Martina Holzweber from the State Music School in Enns is a large, 25-person music and dance project in collaboration with the Amstetten Sun School. Within this project, children and young people with and without disabilities play and dance on equal terms and on an equal footing. With great empathy, the two teachers repeatedly succeed in motivating the young musicians and dancers to perform extraordinarily well. In the artistic creative process, people with very different needs and talents work together and create something extraordinary together. This can succeed because the focus is on art and not on handicap. Time Warp combines groovy live music with thrilling choreographies from court dance, modern dance, afro dance, and contact improvisation and is an entertaining fantasy trip for the whole family. Read more: http://www.lms-enns.at/index-time_warp

Universal Orchestra with LEAGUS - Finland, Norway, and United Kingdom

Universal Orchestra is a vision of equity and diversity through music. It is a collaboration between three organizations — Drake Music Scotland (Scotland, UK); Resonaari Music School (Helsinki, Finland); and SKUG Center (Tromsø, Norway) — whose aims are to provide a more inclusive music education, and giving disabled musicians the possibility to create and perform music. These three partners saw the need for more international collaboration, and Universal Orchestra is born… Read more: https://universalorchestra.com/

Nordoff Robbins Inclusive Choir - United Kingdom

In the UK at Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy, one of the first things we were able to do when the pandemic forced us to temporarily stop all our face to face services was to move our inclusive London community choir online. We knew the choir could be a lifeline for a lot of people so were keen to continue some form of regular connection for them. At first, we started with the existing members of the choir but we then opened it up to anyone, anywhere – it has quickly grown from 18 online members to 138. We now have members of all ages and abilities regularly dialing in for the weekly sessions. Read more: https://www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk/online-choir/

Nederlands Gebaren Koor (Dutch Sign Language Choir)

The Netherlands The Nederlands Gebaren Koor (NGK) is a choir with about 35 members, who come from all different parts of the Netherlands. Most choir members have an auditory impairment. The choir signs songs in Dutch Sign Language, accompanied by music, but without using the voice. Read more: https://www.nederlandsgebarenkoor.nl

SKUG Centre Tromsø - Norway

The SKUG centre is a part of the Culture school (for art and music) in Tromsø, with the aim that anyone who wants to play a musical instrument or compose music has the opportunity to do it, regardless of their level of disability. SKUG’s instruments can be customised to each individual student to enable them to play, and hopefully master an instrument. Sometimes this can be done with very small adaptations or adjustments, but some situations require custom flexible instruments. Music and computer technology linked together provide many possibilities for making custom instruments for each individual, which can be played with a single, possibly tiny, body movement, or even just by moving your eyes! As well as playing individually or together, SKUG students also cooperate with other students in the Culture school, with everyone getting the opportunity to play together in concerts and performances. Read more: https://www.kulturskolentromso.no/om-oss/skug/

Resonaari Music School - Finland

Resonaari music school switched to remote learning for the spring 2020. During this period, the students recorded their own vocals to the song Todella kaunis at home, and over 100 individual tracks were mixed together. In the photo of the video you can see our students. Read more: www.resonaari.fi/international

The ISME Special Music Education and Music Therapy Pre-Conference Seminar is being held from 29 - 31 July 2020 in collaboration with Music Centre Resonaari and Helsinki University.

Thursday’s Musical Event 16:30-17:30

Die kunterbunte 14er (Colorful 14ers) - Austria

Since March 2012, people with special needs and students of elemental music and dance pedagogy, led by Michel Widmer, have been meeting weekly at the Orff Institute of the Mozarteum University Salzburg, Austria. The program includes making music in an inclusive band. Rock and pop songs are played together and interpreted by the group with their own text ideas. A lot can be tried out and everyone can serve as an innovator, accompanist, soloist, and singer. New compositions are also being developed in the group, looking for good and suitable ideas for each participant in dealing with instruments and sound. The joy of doing things together is in the foreground besides working out a "groovy" arrangement. Read more: https://www.moz.ac.at/en/university/standorte/orff_institut.php
Contact: michel.widmer@moz.ac.at

Youth Music Initiative - Scotland

Heartfelt, joyful, and moving, ‘We Are The Music’ captures how accessible music making can positively affect lives. Filmed across six YMI (Youth Music Initiative) projects in East Lothian, Scotland, the film gives a voice to young music makers, some playing an instrument or creating a song for the first time, and makes a strong case for the central role that music can play in closing the attainment gap. Created in Scottish Government Year of the Young person 2018. Read more:
https://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/info/210604/arts_and_entertainment/12102/arts_and_entertainment_services/8

University of Music and Performing Arts - Austria

The film excerpts show the wide range of possibilities including teaching, researching, and making music at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria (mdw). The band All Stars Inclusive is a protected field of practice for students in the IGP master’s program, who participate in it over the course of a semester and complete micro-teaching. Beate Hennenberg has the scientific management while Bernhard Lengauer is the artistic director. The leading team of the chamber music ensemble ClassicALL together is Beate Hennenberg and Christoph Falschlunger. It is anchored at the mdw Hellmesberger Institute and specializes in baroque and classical string and plucking chamber music. The Ensemble Mundwerk and Thonkunst which you will see performing at our 3rd Inclusive Sound Festival at mdw. Beate Hennenberg, Michael Weber, and Helga Neira Zugasty are managing those Sound Festivals. Contact: Hennenberg@mdw.ac.at

Jostiband Orchestra - The Netherlands

The Jostiband Orchestra is a Dutch orchestra for people with a disability. The band currently has 200 members and is the largest orchestra in the world of its kind. Concerts take place every month - normally in the Netherlands, but also abroad. Read more: https://www.jostiband.nl/over-het-orkest/infoalgemeen

Fischy Music and St. Columba’s Hospice - Scotland

Fischy Music wrote the ‘Change Matters’ song with children and teachers at Victoria Primary School and St Columba’s Hospice patients in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was part of an award-winning, intergenerational project exploring issues around death and dying. The children met with patients in the hospice to discuss the impact of life-limiting issues, to explore thoughts and feelings through the arts and to write songs that can be shared with the rest of the school, the hospice and the wider community. The children, known as the Victoria Rockers, star in the video. Read more: https://www.fischy.com/
Read more: https://stcolumbashospice.org.uk/hospice-patients-and-primary-school-childrendiscuss-death-and-dying-through-songwriting

My Breath My Music Foundation - The Netherlands

My Breath My Music aims to give people with severe physical disabilities the opportunity to play music, using either self-adapted electronic instruments or electronic instruments the organisation have developed themselves. Read more: http://mybreathmymusic.com/en/

Friday’s Musical Event 16:30-18:00

Resonaari Open Doors: A Live Online Visit and Demonstration Welcome to Resonaari!

As a host of the 2020 ISME pre-conference seminar of the Commission on Special Music Education and Music Therapy, Music Centre Resonaari welcomes you to visit us virtually. With our Resonaari musicians and Markku Kaikkonen, you can join some teaching practices in Resonaari Music School. Of course, our session will also include live music! About the Special Music Centre Resonaari Music Centre Resonaari (Helsinki, Finland) has a music school for people with special needs. The music school currently offers instrument and band tuition to over 300 pupils, all of whom have one or two music lessons per week. Resonaari Music School follows the Finnish National Curriculum for music schools and has an official music school status in Finland. Music Centre Resonaari also carries out research and development, produces material, organizes courses and complementary education, and maintains a network for professionals, associations, polytechnics, and universities in Finland and abroad. Resonaari Inclusive Music Network The Resonaari Inclusive Music Network (i.e., Resonaari Network) maintained by Music Centre Resonaari is a free service aimed at professionals, and it is created to bring together people who value equality in learning and accessibility of music making. Read more: www.resonaari.fi/international

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